Browsing College of Arts and Science by Subject "disclosure"

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    • Privacy, Publicity, and Choice 
      Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      We develop and explore a new model of the economics of privacy. Previous work has focused on "privacy of type," wherein an agent privately knows an immutable characteristic. We consider "privacy of action," wherein privacy ...
    • Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure 
      Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      In this paper we examine the behavior of a firm that produces a product with a privately-observed safety attribute; that is, consumers cannot observe directly the product¬πs safety. The firm may, at a cost, disclose its ...